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THE    LAW    OF    KINDNESS 

FORGIVE,  AND  YE  SHALL  BE  FORGIVEN 

THE    HABIT    OF    HATING 

THE     LAW,   OF     KINDNESS 

"YE    SHALL    BE     AS    GODS" 

TWO    ROSES 


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THE  LAW  OF  KINDNESS 


FORGIVE,  AND  YE  SHALL  BE  FORGIVEN" 

"nnHY  sins  be  forgiven  thee!"  When  Jesus 
A  made  this  bold  statement  to  the  sufferers 
who  came  asking  him  to  have  mercy  upon  them, 
what  authority  had  he  to  forgive  sins?  How 
could  he  forgive  them?  We  are  taught  in  Chris- 
tian Science  that  sins  are  forgiven  only  as  they 
are  destroyed,  and  how  can  any  one  destroy  the 
sins  of  others?  How  can  he  bring  about  the 
mental  condition  in  them  which  must  accompany 
such  a  change?  In  Christian  Science  we  learn, 
too,  that  to  forgive  never  means  to  endure,  but 
to  do  away  with  whatever  is  unlike  God,  to  put 
it  out  of  consciousness ;  to  give  the  offending  one 
a  new  likeness  in  our  thought  in  place  of  the  one 
formerly,  and  perhaps  habitually,  held  of  him. 
We  can  give  him  a  true  concept  of  himself  only 
by  holding  such  a  concept  in  our  own  conscious- 
ness. Doing  this,  we  exercise  the  same  authority 
that    the    Master    possessed,    authority    attend- 


363195 


4  THE   LAW    OF    KINDNESS 

ant  upon  the  understanding  that  the  true  man 
reflects  God.  By  seeing  man  in  this  true  light, 
as  the  perfect  reflection  of  perfect  Mind,  Jesus 
could  pronounce  the  sin  forgiven,  wiped  out,  so 
far  as  his  own  consciousness  was  concerned. 
This  much  one  can  do  for  another.  Thus  far 
is  atonement  vicarious. 

Mortals  forgive  sin  only  in  their  own  conscious- 
ness, because  it  is  there  alone  that  they  find  sin. 
That  is  why  our  own  salvation  depends  entirely 
upon  our  forgiveness  of  others.  We  find  our- 
selves pardoned  as  we  clear  our  mentality  of 
others'  faults.  But  for  our  dealings  with  our 
fellow  men,  but  for  the  fact  that  we  form  one 
great  and  inseparable  family,  we  should  have  no 
false  concepts  to  adjust,  no  belief  that  we  can 
be  wronged  or  hated.  We  often  need  to  be  for- 
given for  our  lack  of  forgiving  others.  If  we 
insist  upon  striking  discords,  we  shall  never  gain 
a  realization  of  the  harmony  of  music;  but,  learn- 
ing what  the  true  chords  are,  we  can  by  care  and 
attention  avoid  striking  the  false  ones.  If,  upon 
awakening  to  a  sense  of  what  man  is  in  divine 
Mind,  we  begin  at  once  to  refuse  to  think  of 
and  refer  to  the  false  manifestations  of  mortal 
thought,  we  lift  our  brother  in  our  consciousness 
out  of  a  false  light — we  forgive  him. 


"FORGIVE,  AND  YE  SHALL  BE  FORGIVEN"      5 

Since  it  is  our  false  or  mortal  estimate  of  our- 
selves and  others  that  causes  our  own  inharmonies, 
we  ourselves  become  harmonious  as  we  turn  from 
the  shortcomings  and  dwell  upon  the  everlasting 
good.  One  great  sin,  that  of  bearing  false 
witness  against  our  neighbor,  falling  from  us, 
forgiveness  in  the  scientific  sense  of  forgiveness  is 
realized.  The  power  to  forgive  others  is  not 
limited  to  those  who  have  wronged  us  individually, 
but  extends  to  all  who  are  in  any  way  in  bondage 
to  error.  We  are  often  as  deeply  offended  by 
wrongs  done  to  others  as  by  those  done  to  our- 
selves. It  is  startling  to  realize  that  we  are 
responsible  for  the  double  result  which  follows 
our  holding  in  consciousness  the  faults  of  others. 
We  not  only  pursue  a  course  which  would  tend 
to  bring  them  "into  temptation"  by  mentally  sug- 
gesting error  instead  of  truth  to  their  thought, 
but  we  actually  bring  ourselves  into  the  same 
temptation,  and  may  commit  the  same  sin!  This 
is  what  Paul  meant  when  he  wrote  to  the  Romans, 
"Therefore  thou  art  inexcusable,  O  man,  whoso- 
r  thou  art  that  judgest:  for  wrherein  thou 
judgest  another,  thou  condemnest  thyself;  for 
thou  that  judgest  doest  the  same  things."  Just 
think  of  it — "the  same  things" — the  very  same  we 
h.ive  so  condemned  in  another! 


6  THE   LAW    OF    KINDNESS 

It  is  a  scientific  truth  that  whatever  is  retained 
as  fact  in  consciousness  is  bound  to  be  manifested 
either  in  words,  deeds,  or  bodily  condition.  To 
think  health,  our  own  health  or  that  of  others, 
brings  to  us  the  manifestations  of  health;  to 
think  sickness  likewise  brings  its  manifestations, 
and  sin  belongs  to  the  same  category.  The 
only  self-protective  as  well  as  remedial  course 
is  to  turn  the  thought  from  error, — "forgive" 
it,  and  know  that  it  is  not.  Otherwise  we 
bring  ourselves  into  the  same  condemnation, 
whosoever  we  are,  for  Principle  is  no  respecter 
of  persons.  We  may  find  ourselves  saying,  "If 
my  friend  only  had  energy,  and  would  make 
some  effort ;"  "If  he  would  lay  aside  his  pride,  and 
be  willing  to  do  as  I  do;"  "If  he  were  just  orderly 
and  punctual,  so  that  he  could  be  depended  upon ;" 
"If  he  were  not  so  utterly  selfish,  but  had  some 
consideration  for  others."  We  are  forgetting 
about  our  capacity  to  forgive,  our  obligation  to 
untie  from  his  neck  the  millstone  of  our  down- 
dragging  thoughts;  to  know  in  our  hearts  that 
man,  God's  image  and  likeness,  must  of  necessity 
reflect  energy,  humility,  order,  punctuality,  con- 
sideration; and  that  by  reflecting  these  qualities 
ourselves  we  lift  our  brother,  as  Jesus  did.  to  the 
same  desirable  plane. 


"FORGIVE,  AND  YE  SHALL  BE  FORGIVEN"      7 

At  first  we  hesitate  to  shut  our  eyes  to  the 
evil  and  see  only  the  good,  because  it  seems  false 
and  unjust  to  do  this.  We  want  to  enjoy  a 
righteous  indignation  because  of  our  brother's 
actions,  and  a  feeling  of  superiority  because  our 
ways  differ  so  vastly  from  his.  Let  us  take 
heed!  Do  we  think  we  stand?  But  self-gratula- 
tion  to  the  disparagement  of  our  brother  is  greatly 
to  our  discredit.  "Thou  that  judgest  doest  the 
same  things."  By  refusing  to  recognize  sin  in 
the  woman  taken  in  adultery,  Jesus  not  only 
rescued  her  from  her  tormentors, — from  the 
thoughts  of  those  who  condemned  her, — but  we 
are  safe  in  inferring  that  he  also  changed  the 
whole  course  of  her  life  when  his  loving  assurance, 
"Neither  do  I  condemn  thee,"  was  followed  by  the 
gentle  yet  imperative  command,  "Go,  and  sin  no 
more." 

Do  we  realize  the  intrinsic  meaning  of  the 
expression,  "I  forgive  you"?  Let  us  not  use  it 
thoughtlessly,  lest  we  lay  perjury  to  our  own 
souls.  When  we  forgive  with  the  spirit  of  the 
Master,  with  practical  and  effectual  forgiveness, 
with  the  only  forgiveness  that  reacts  upon  him- 
self "to  win  his  own  pardon"  (Science  and  Health, 
p.  .365),  we  refuse  to  see  aught  but  the  good; 
we  know   that  evil   never  existed   and   exists   not 


8  THE    LAW    OF    KINDNESS 

now.  We  are  ready  to  declare  all  good  of  the 
one  who  has  offended,  and  we  do  not  allow  our- 
selves to  repeat  to  another,  or  even  to  recall  to 
our  own  consciousness,  that  the  offense  ever  oc- 
curred; our  brother  is  our  brother  again  in  per- 
fect fellowship, — we  are  ready  to  receive  him  if 
he  comes  to  us,  to  go  to  him  if  called,  to  rejoice 
in  being  his  friend,  to  defend  him  if  others  refer 
to  his  fault,  and  to  say,  as  Jesus  did,  "He  that 
is  without  sin  among  you,  let  him  first  cast  a 
stone." 

There  is  yet  another,  a  still  more  unselfish  and 
impersonal  sense  in  which  Jesus  forgave,  a  sense 
which  the  Science  of  Christianity  alone  could 
awaken  in  us,  and  that  is  the  releasing  of  others 
from  the  fetters  of  our  mistaken  human  sympa- 
thy. It  is  divine  compassion  that  enables  us  to 
do  this, — to  free  mankind  from  their  material 
fears,  criticisms,  superstitions,  and  time-honored 
laws.  If,  through  the  changed  mentality  that 
some  one  among  us  has  reached  by  love  and  humil- 
ity and  faithful  work,  or  that  has  come  to  him 
through  the  clear  understanding  of  another,  »the 
mortal  belief  in  sickness  or  sorrow  or  sin  vanishes, 
and  he  comes  forth  hardly  strong  enough  to  bear 
the  light  of  the  new  heaven  of  happiness  and  the 
freedom  of  the  new  earth  of  health,  are  we  ready 


"FORGIVE, AND  YE  SHALL  BE  FORGIVEN"      9 

with  our  practical  recognition  of  Truth's  power 
to  protect  him?  Caution,  fear,  doubt,  predictions 
that  his  recovery  will  not  continue,  and  all  the 
myriad  of  hindering  thoughts  that  we  may  enter- 
tain concerning  him — these  are  the  grave-clothes 
that  bind  our  Lazarus  "hand  and  foot;"  and 
if  we  would  not  hinder  or  impede  or  render 
impossible  his  advancement,  we  must  "loose  him" 
from  these   and,  trusting  him  to   God,  "let  him 

go." 

What  indeed  is  the  mental  condition  that  makes 
it  possible  for  God  to  "heal  the  sick  through 
man"  (Science  and  Health,  p.  495),  but  a  capac- 
ity to  forgive?  It  was  "for  their  sakes"  that 
Jesus  sanctified  himself  that  he  might  keep  him- 
self in  a  state  of  mental  purity  which  would 
enable  him  to  see  others  "sanctified  through  the 
truth."  His  life  was  a  continual  forgiving,  a 
continual  lifting  of  thought  above  the  material 
appearance,  and  a  recognition  of  the  real  man — 
he  who  has  dwelt  forever  in  the  bosom  of  the 
Father.  Not  seven  times  did  he  forgive,  but 
seventy  times  seven,  or  times  without  number — 
unlimited.  He  knew  that  to  retain  in  thought 
error  of  any  kind,  whether  expressed  by  one's  self 
or  by  others,  destroys  the  purity  of  that  thought ; 
and  it  is  only    through    the    pure,    transparent 


10  THE    LAW    OF    KINDNESS 

thought  of  any  individual  that  the  healing  light 
of  Science  can  shine.  We  learn,  then,  that  all 
human  harmony  is  made  contingent  upon  for- 
giveness, and  that  the  divine  forgiveness  can  be 
reached  by  us  only  through  our  clear  sense  of 
forgiveness,  for  even  "as  we  forgive"  are  we  our- 
selves forgiven. 


THE   HABIT   OF   HATING 

THE  world  contains  many  people  who  cherish, 
as  did  the  writer  at  one  time,  the  foolish 
and  pestiferous  notion  that  to  be  "a  good  hater" 
is  evidence  of  strength  of  character.  Sometimes, 
even,  the  absurd  notion  is  held  that  the  ability  to 
hate  well  shows  a  corresponding  temperamental 
disposition  and  power  to  love  well.  Literature 
abounds  with  mischievous  encouragement  of  such 
notions.  Incorrect  opinions  about  God  being  "a 
hater,"  opinions  which  are  derived  through  a 
superficial  consideration  of  the  meaning  of  some 
passages  in  the  Bible,  are  appealed  to  for  support- 
ing the  falsity  of  such  notions.  Great  writers  like 
Thomas  Carlyle  have  adulterated  their  mighty  in- 
fluences for  good  with  the  false  teaching  that  hate 
has  shown  itself  at  times  in  the  affairs  of  the 
world,  as  in  the  French  Revolution,  for  example, 
to  be  a  sublime  dynamic  energy  to  assist  human- 
kind toward  bettered  conditions. 

One   of   the   blessings    incident    to   the    careful 

study  of  the  writings  of  Mrs.  Eddy,  who  was  a 
11 


12  THE    LAW    OF    KINDNESS 

very  safe  and  profound  reasoner  (as  is  shown 
whenever  we  apply  the  ultimate  tests  of  logic, 
although  the  hasty  glance  at  some  of  her  state- 
ments might  lead  to  the  opposite  opinion),  is  to  be 
found  in  the  fact  that  such  study  has  been  educat- 
ing us  how  to  think  more  broadly,  more  surely, 
more  exactly.  We  learn — many  of  us,  at  least — 
how  to  analyze  and  synthesize  more  successfully. 
Besides,  when  we  come  to  any  of  those  highways 
or  byways  in  our  meditations  where  heretofore 
we  always  found  ourselves  to  be  painfully  stum- 
bling along  in  the  dark,  our  progress  is  assisted 
and  illumined  if  we  will  turn  on  the  search-lights 
of  the  great  primary  truths  of  Christian  Science. 
Let  us  now  try  to  turn  on  one  of  these  search- 
lights, to  dispel  the  misleading  falsehood  that  to 
hate  is  sometimes  good.  Let  us  begin  with  the 
obvious  truth  that  the  meaning  of  the  verb  to  hate 
is  the  exact  antipode  of  the  meaning^of  the  verb 
to  love.  Of  course  the  term  love  is  here  used 
according  to  its  higher  meaning  only.  Love  is 
the  creative  impulse  and  motive  to  be  discerned 
throughout  God's  universe.  Harmony  is  the  inci- 
dent of  love.  Nothing  could  endure  without  har- 
mony. On  the  other  hand,  discord,  the  antipode 
of  harmony,  is  always  destructive.  Love  and 
harmony  therefore  are  based  on  God's  law,  they 


THE  HABIT  OF  HATING  13 

are  affirmative  elements  of  the  divine  Principle  of 
being.  Hatred  and  discord  are  not  such  affirma- 
tive elements.  They  are  negations  of  love  and 
harmony:  hatred  the  absence  of  love,  and  discord 
the  absence  of  harmony ;  therefore,  hatred  has  no 
law  to  energize  and  maintain  it. 

All  the  maintenance  and  energy  hatred  may 
seem  to  have  or  to  exhibit  come  from  some  sup- 
posed source  wholly  apart  and  distinct  from  God's 
law  and  government.  In  other  words,  hatred  is  a 
falsehood,  and  is  to  be  classified  as  belonging  to 
the  extensive  category  of  falsehoods  which  have 
their  place  in  "mortal  mind."  Any  force  or  energy 
exhibited  by  hatred  is  destructive,  and  is  followed 
by  consequences  more  or  less  mischievous  ac- 
cording to  the  degree  of  force  or  energy  mani- 
fested. This  is  so  because  any  force  or  energy 
exhibited  by  hatred  proceeds  from  the  circum- 
stance that  it  arouses  to  action  what  is  bad  and 
not  what  is  good  in  human  beings.  Hate  con- 
tributed to  the  French  Revolution  its  crimes  and 
horrors,  not  its  triumphs  which  inured  to  the 
benefit  of  our  race.  The  latter  resulted  from 
higher  causes.  Not  a  single  good  thing  in  the 
life  of  any  people  or  of  any  individual  can  be 
traced  to  the  causation  of  hate,  because  hate's 
action  is  necessarily  discordant  and  destructive. 


14  THE   LAW   OF    KINDNESS 

The  term  "a  good  hater"  is  a  self-contradictory 
term.  There  cannot  be  a  good  hater  unless  there 
can  be  such  a  thing  as  good  hatred.  To  say  that 
there  ever  can  be  such  a  thing  as  good  hatred 
necessarily  implies  that  a  force  or  energy  which, 
like  every  phenomenon  of  evil,  is  a  negation  of 
law  in  its  origin  and  manifestation,  as  much  so  as 
a  mistake  in  adding  numbers  is  a  negation  of  the 
rule  of  addition,  would  be  the  same  as  saying  that 
what  is  lawless  may  at  times  be  lawful;  or,  to 
pursue  the  mathematical  illustration,  that  a  viola- 
tion of  the  law  of  addition  may  at  times  produce 
a  right  result.  If  love  be  a  force  or  energy  the 
results  of  which  are  sure  to  be  good,  then  the 
antipode  of  love,  hatred,  can  be  nothing  else  than 
a  false  exhibition  of  force  and  energy,  the  results 
of  which  are  sure  to  be  bad. 

By  way  of  illustration,  let  us  suppose  that  one 
is  a  student  of  Christian  Science,  and  that  he  has 
come  to  the  decision  that  it  is  wrong  for  him  to 
hate  any  person.  That  is  a  big  step  toward  the 
attainment  of  harmony  in  his  consciousness  and 
life,  and  likewise  in  becoming  a  source  of  har- 
monious influences  for  the  good  of  others.  To 
nurse  a  feeling  of  hatred  for  any  person  or  per- 
sons is  to  nurse  a  venomous  source  of  discord,  the 
effects  of  which  are  manifested  mentally,  morally, 


THB  HABIT  09  HATING  I* 

and  physically.  Now  let  us  suppose  that  while 
he  has  thus  decided  to  try  to  overcome  his  hatred 
for  any  person  or  persons,  he  is  still  of  the  opinion 
that  it  is  a  good  thing  to  hate  certain  kinds  of 
evil  "impersonally ,"  or  in  the  abstract. 

There  are  good  people  who  still  pride  them- 
selves, perchance,  upon  the  belief  that  they  are 
"good  haters"  of  evil,  especially  of  certain  kinds, 
in  the  abstract,  although  they  have  learned  how 
much  better  it  is  to  have  no  hate  for  any  person 
or  persons,  or  for  any  particular  thing  or  things 
in  concrete  form.  Would  it  not  be  wise  for  such 
a  one  to  ponder  the  question  whether  or  not  he 
can  hate  "impersonally;"  that  is  to  say,  are  we 
sure  that  we  can  hate  the  vice  of  lying,  for  exam- 
ple, without  associating  in  our  consciousness  this 
vice  with  some  person  or  persons?  Further,  if 
we  are  indulging  in  the  habit  of  "impersonal" 
hatred,  for  example,  for  the  vice  of  lying,  are  we 
not  thereby  in  danger  of  making  a  reality  or  truth 
of  that  toward  which  we  are  directing  the  thought 
of  hate?  Again,  are  we  thus  pursuing  the  right 
method  for  overcoming  what  when  we  analyze  it 
proves  to  be  a  negation  or  absence  of  truth,  and 
therefore  no  part  of  the  reality  of  God's  universe? 
On  the  contrary,  are  we  not  pursuing  a  course 
which  is  the  very  opposite  of  the  scientific  course? 


16  THE   LAW   OF    KINDNESS 

Do  we  not  need  to  remember  that  Love  and 
Truth  can  overcome  evil,  and  that  hatred  has  no 
power  to  do  so?  In  Science  and  Health  (p.  243) 
we  read,  "Love  has  no  sense  of  hatred.  .  .  • 
Truth,  Life,  and  Love  are  a  law  of  annihilation  to 
everything  unlike  themselves,  because  they  de- 
clare nothing  except  God." 

Finally,  is  not  the  habit  of  hating,  no  matter 
what  the  object  of  our  hatred  may  be,  whether 
personal  or  impersonal,  a  very  bad  habit  for  us 
to  cultivate?  Does  not  any  kind  of  "hating"  on 
our  part  tend  to  make  us  more  or  less  discordant? 
Is  it  not  better  to  understand  that  everything  in 
God's  universe  is  good,  and  worthy  to  be  loved, 
and  simply  to  know  the  nothingness  of  all  that 
does  not  belong  to  God?  We  may  also  ponder 
with  profit  the  apostle's  declaration,  namely, 
"Love  is  the  fulfilling  of  the  law." 


THE  LAW  OF  KINDNESS 

WHEN  for  purely  personal  reasons  laws  are 
made  by  men,  these  human  enactments 
often  seem  to  other  men  to  be  unreasonable  and 
arbitrary,  and  they  are  sometimes  resisted. 
Hence  there  has  grown  up  a  wrong  sense  of  law, 
and  when  we  speak  of  the  law  of  God  it  is  fre- 
quently conceived  to  be  an  arbitrary  demand  on 
man  of  the  personal  will  of  the  almighty  Law- 
maker. But  when  we  rightly  understand  God  as 
Principle,  and  that  "righteousness  and  judgment 
are  the  habitation  of  his  throne,"  we  then  con- 
ceive of  God's  law  as  the  uniform  and  consistent 
expression  of  His  true  nature,  and  no  longer 
think  of  it  as  a  rule  of  action  enforced  on  man 
and  supported  by  penalties  for  disobedience. 
When  one  becomes  assimilated  to  God,  is  harmo- 
nious with  divine  Principle  and  accordant  with  the 
nature  of  the  creator,  then  in  his  life  appears 
the  uniform  occurrence  of  characteristics  such  as 
were  manifest  in  Christ  Jesus,  who  came  not  to  do 

17 


18  THE    LAW    OF    KINDNESS 

his  own  will,  but  to  express  the  will  or  character 
of  God.  Such  a  life  manifests  the  divine  law, 
which  is  ever  the  same.  "The  world  passeth  away, 
and  the  lust  thereof:  but  he  that  doeth  the  will 
of  God  abideth  forever." 

Let  us  examine  one  characteristic  which  may 
be  so  regularly  active  in  a  man's  life  that  it 
becomes  a  law.  Kindness  does  not  seem  to  be 
natural  to  men,  but  it  may  become,  as  they  say, 
"second  nature."  Kind  action  may  be  of  such 
uniform  occurrence  that  the  man  expresses  the 
law  of  kindness.  There  are  yet  to  be  found  un- 
social and  savage  conditions  where  every  man's 
hand  is  against  his  neighbor,  but  even  among  bar- 
barians, whether  in  civilized  lands  or  uncivilized, 
there  is  to  be  found  a  sense  of  kinship.  The  man 
who  seems  to  be  the  conscienceless  destroyer  of 
the  well-being  of  many,  may  be  considerate  to  his 
own  family.  He  may  regard  the  ties  of  blood, 
even  as  animals  do  that  fight  for  their  young  and 
nourish  them.  But  men  are  capable  of  higher 
things  than  the  wolf,  the  savage  protector  of  his 
household.  In  men  there  is  a  common  nature,  a 
universal  kinship,  a  similarity  of  relationship  to 
true  life;  and  the  individual  who  reaches  a  sense 
of  universal  friendliness  and  world-wide  good  will, 
perceives   this   indestructible    relationship   and   is 


THE  LAW  OF  KINDNESS  19 

lifted  thereby  into  the  permanent  and  heavenly 
lenaed  life. 

Professor  Drummond,  in  his  book  "The  Great- 
est Thing  in  the  World,"  asks  the  question,  "Have 
you  ever  noticed  how  much  of  Christ's  life  was 
spent  in  doing  kind  things — in  merely  doing  kind 
tilings?"  In  the  life  which  represents  to  us  the 
normal  life  for  man  this  characteristic  kindness 
has  not  been  sufficiently  noticed  by  good  men,  else 
the  query  of  the  child  would  not  occur,  "Where  in 
heaven  will  God  put  the  men  who  are  good  but 
not  kind?"  The  observant  Peter  seems  to  have 
noticed  the  need  of  something  more  than  austere 
righteousness,  for  he  says,  "Add  to  your  .  .  . 
godliness  brotherly  kindness."  How  great  is  the 
need  in  the  world  for  ordinary  kindness!  We 
applaud  kindness  in  the  great  emergencies,  as 
when  after  the  cruelty  of  battle  the  devoted  nurses 
minister  to  the  suffering,  supplying  their  needs 
without  asking  on  which  side  in  the  conflict  they 
stood, — just  ministering  to  them  all  as  to  men  in 
need  of  friendliness. 

But  in  the  daily  battle  of  life  there  are  the 

wounded  and  broken-hearted.     A  smile  gleaming 

from  the  innocent  face  of  a  child  has  comforted 

one   bereaved;   the    courtesy   of   a   stranger   has 

-sured  a  man  almost  discouraged;  a  pleasant 


20  THE   LAW   OF    KINDNESS 

word,  a  kind  inquiry,  a  friendly  look,  a  hearty 
greeting  is  often  enough  to  redeem  a  man  from 
loneliness  and  heart  exile,  and  remind  him  that 
he  belongs  in  the  circle  of  humanity  and  has  his 
home  with  God's  children.  Even  when  rebuke  is 
needed  the  loving  heart  may  give  it  and  bless 
thereby.  "Let  the  righteous  smite  me ;  it  shall  be 
a  kindness,"  said  the  psalmist;  "and  let  him 
reprove  me;  it  shall  be  an  excellent  oil,  which 
shall  not  break  my  head." 

Men  are  slowly  learning  the  true  method  of 
reform  as  they  labor  for  the  redemption  of  the 
world.  Experience  has  shown  that  more  good 
may  result  from  an  insignificant  kindness  than 
from  the  most  elaborate  ritual  of  punishment  and 
cruelty.  The  punisher  labors  to  satisfy  himself 
by  taking  vengeance  upon  the  wrong-doer,  but 
the  kind  man  endeavors  to  change  the  motives  of 
the  sinner  in  order  that  he  may  become  a  right- 
doer. 

The  cruel  man  wins  hatred  and  distrust  from 
men,  and  even  though  by  cruelty  he  thinks  to  do 
God  a  service,  he  does  not  balance  his  account 
thus  or  win  favor  with  God,  for  the  divine  methods 
are  not  destructive  and  hurtful,  but  always 
methods  of  salvation.  Therefore  it  can  be  said, 
"How  excellent   is   thy  loving-kindness,   O   God! 


THE  LAW  OF   KINDNESS  21 

therefore  the  children  of  men  put  their  trust 
under  the  shadow  of  thy  wings." 

If  any  one  lias  a  doubt  as  to  the  attitude  of 
God  to  man,  consider  the  insight  of  the  prophets, 
who  gave  their  message  in  pre-Messianic  days,  as 
light  shining  through  the  cloud  of  anthropomor- 
phic conceptions  regarding  Deity.  "In  a  little 
wrath  I  hid  my  face  from  thee  for  a  moment; 
but  with  everlasting  kindness  will  I  have  mercy  on 
tine,  saith  the  Lord  thy  Redeemer,"  is  the  com- 
forting reassurance  of  Isaiah;  and  Jeremiah 
wrote,  "The  Lord  hath  appeared  of  old  unto  me, 
saying,  Yea,  I  have  loved  thee  with  an  everlast- 
ing love:  therefore  with  loving-kindness  have  I 
drawn  thee."  Compare  these  with  the  teaching 
of  Peter,  who  was  himself  taught  by  the  Messiah, 
declaring  that  God  is  "longsuffering  to  us-ward, 
not  willing  that  any  should  perish,  but  that  all 
should  come  to  repentance;"  and  we  have  a  con- 
sistent revelation  as  to  the  character  of  God,  and 
may  learn  what  in  man  will  be  this  likeness  ex- 
pressed. We  can  then  appreciate  Paul's  injunc- 
tion: "Put  on  therefore,  as  the  elect  of  God, 
holy  and  beloved,  bowels  of  mercies,  kindness." 

If  men  were  ordinarily  kind,  deferential,  consid- 
erate of  others,  how  many  agonizing  problems 
would  cease  to  exist.     If  we  can  put  trust  in  God 


22  THE   LAW   OF    KINDNESS 

because  of  the  excellence  of  His  loving-kindness, 
we  shall  trust  man  in  proportion  as  he  excels  in 
kindness.  Many  situations  pregnant  with  suffer- 
ing and  bitterness  are  the  result  of  distrust.  The 
action  of  another  cannot  be  certainly  prophesied, 
and  surmise  becomes  busy  foreshadowing  the  worst 
possibility.  These  fear-created  clouds  darken 
with  their  gloom  many  a  heart  when  the  light  of 
trust  in  good  would  show  that  all  was  really 
well.  It  is  upon  kindness  shown  that  confidence 
may  be  based,  and  when  kindness  has  become  so 
consistent  in  a  man  that  it  is  known  to  be  law, 
then  trust  in  his  goodness  becomes  assured.  We 
know  that  his  actions  will  be  consistent  with  his 
character.  We  rely  upon  the  law  that  governs 
him,  and  should  become  ourselves  subordinate  to 
that  same  law  of  kindness. 

No  positive  results  whatever  seem  to  be 
achieved  by  unkindness.  A  quarrel  or  a  war 
between  two  nations  may  embitter  the  lives  of 
men  for  generations.  The  resentful  feeling  may 
be  like  a  tree  producing  poisonous  fruit  season 
after  season,  whereas  an  international  courtesy 
may  send  a  thrill  of  kind  feeling  through  a  nation 
and  produce  patience,  consideration,  good  will  for 
many  years  after.  Hatred  does  not  sow  seed  and 
reap  harvests,  for  it  is  the  blight  upon  the  crop 


THE  LAW  OF  KINDNESS  28 

cultivated,  the  destroyer  of  man's  good.  Kind- 
ness comes  as  blessing  upon  the  righteous  labor 
of  man.  Kindness  enriches  man's  life  as  the  sun- 
shine and  the  gentle  rain  persuade  the  growth 
and  ripening  of  the  seed  hidden  in  the  earth,  until 
the  fields  are  golden  with  harvest  wealth. 

Christian  Science  shows  us  clearly  that  we  can 
make  no  progress  without  sincerity.  To  be  hon- 
or  sincere  we  must  work  from  one  standpoint. 
If  we  love  our  friends  and  hate  our  enemies  we 
are  double-minded,  trying  to  conjoin  ill  will  and 
good  will,  and  the  result  too  often  is  that  the 
blight  withers  the  blessing;  that  hate  and  lust  for 
n  venge  become  the  ruling  power;  while  love 
dwindles  to  the  mere  formality  of  loving  those  who 
love  us.  "If  ye  do  good  to  them  which  do  good 
to  you,  what  thank  have  ye?  for  sinners  also  do 
even  the  same."  This  question  was  put  by  Jesus, 
and  then  he  said,  "But  love  ye  your  enemies,  and 
do  good,  and  lend,  hoping  for  nothing  again  [or 
despairing  of  no  man,  which  is  the  better  transla- 
tion] ;  and  your  reward  shall  be  great,  and  ye 
•hall  be  the  children  of  the  Highest:  for  he  is 
kind  unto  the  unthankful  and  to  the  evil." 

History  makes  clear  that  cruelty  never  brought 
success.  Men  by  murder  and  deceit  have  sought 
for  power,  but  have  grasped  only  a  phantasm  of 


24  THE   LAW    OF    KINDNESS 

happiness.  Like  the  Emperor  Julian,  they  have 
dwelt  affrighted  in  view  of  the  mental  pictures  of 
their  own  evil  deeds.  A  wrong  done  is  the  seed 
of  terror  to  the  wrong-doer,  and  the  sowing  of 
hate  in  the  victim;  but  kindness  is  always  "twice 
blessed."  The  kind  man  increases  his  happiness 
and  the  recipient  of  good  will  is  comforted  and 
encouraged.  Indeed,  there  is  a  threefold  bless- 
ing in  obedience  to  the  law  of  kindness.  The  kind 
office  blesses  both  giver  and  receiver,  and  places 
before  the  observer  new  ideals  of  success  and 
happiness.  Men  have  pointed  out  to  the  youth  of 
the  land  the  aggrandizement  of  the  selfish  and 
the  brief  prosperity  of  the  unscrupulous,  as  if 
that  were  success;  but  "the  mills  of  God"  grind 
not  so  slowly  after  all,  for  already  these  false 
ideals  are  ground  to  powder,  and  the  men  of  the 
nation  see  with  clearer  eyes  that  "success  in  error 
is  defeat  in  Truth"  (Science  and  Health,  p.  239). 
They  are  asking  how  success  may  be  achieved  in 
concord  with  law,  so  that  prosperity  may  be  per- 
manent. The  answer  is  given  in  the  teachings  of 
Christian  Science,  and  the  answer  is  also  given  by 
the  life  of  its  Discoverer,  Mrs.  Eddy,  to  whom  the 
words  of  King  Lemuel  so  well  apply:  "She 
openeth  her  mouth  with  wisdom ;  and  in  her  tongue 
is  the  law  of  kindness." 


"YE    SHALL  BE   AS   GODS" 

IT  may  be  a  far  cry  from  the  bustle  and  hurry 
and  striving  of  twentieth-century  living  back 
to  the  garden  of  Eden,  yet  an  honest  investigation 
for  the  cause  of  all  the  material  sense  of  working 
and  accomplishing  which  results  only  in  vanity 
and  vexation  of  spirit,  must  take  us  on  such  a 
journey.  The  promise  of  the  serpent,  "Ye  shall 
be  as  gods,"  is  linked  with  the  curse  on  mankind; 
the  curse  which  condemned  mankind  to  toil  with- 
out fruitage  and  laid  upon  woman  the  burden  of 
sorrow  and  bondage.  The  history  of  the  race  has 
inevitably  confirmed  this  partnership,  for  wherever 
mankind  has  turned  from  obedience  and  service 
to  the  one  God,  the  results  of  burden-bearing 
and  dissatisfaction  and  sorrow  have  invariably 
followed. 

Mrs.  Eddy,  on  page  263  of  "Science  and 
Health  with  Key  to  the  Scriptures,"  writes: 
"Mortals  are  egotists.  They  believe  themselves  to 
be  independent  workers,  personal  authors,  and 
even    privileged   originators   of   something   which 


26  THE    LAW    OF    KINDNESS 

Deity  would  not  or  could  not  create."  It  is  this 
egotistic  belief  in  personal  ability,  capacity,  and 
responsibility,  of  intelligence  and  activity  sep- 
arated from  God,  which  exposes  the  business  man 
to  the  harassment  of  anxiety,  the  housewife  to 
the  load  of  care,  and  the  thinker  to  the  law  of 
wearing  out.  On  page  387  of  Science  and  Health 
Mrs.  Eddy  gives  an  efficient  remedy  for  this  false 
sense  of  mental  and  physical  energy:  "When  we 
realize  that  immortal  Mind  is  ever  active,  and 
that  spiritual  energies  can  neither  wear  out  nor 
can  so-called  material  law  trespass  upon  God- 
given  powers  and  resources,  we  are  able  to  rest  in 
Truth." 

The  Father's  business  is  not  a  hard  business, 
because  our  Father  "worketh  hitherto"  and  with 
us.  It  is  only  when  we  allow  a  sense  of  separation 
from  God  to  enter  into  our  work  that  it  becomes 
difficult  or  onerous.  It  is  not  the  work  we  do,  the 
strength  we  expend,  the  stress  we  have  to  undergo, 
nor  the  measure  of  alertness  which  we  are  called 
upon  to  exercise  in  our  daily  experiences  which 
wears  and  burdens,  but  our  own  stubborn  belief 
that  it  is  our  strength,  our  endurance,  or  activity, 
upon  which  we  are  drawing ;  all  because  we  are  ab- 
sorbing the  material  sense  evidence,  "Ye  shall  be 
as  gods,"  instead  of  reflecting  the  truth  set  forth 


"YE  SHALL  BE  AS  GODS"  27 

in  Jesus'  words :  "I  can  of  mine  own  self  do  noth- 
ing." "The  Father  that  dwelleth  in  me,  he  doeth 
the  works." 

Jesus  often  rebuked  this  self-sufficient  tend- 
ency of  mortal  mind,  and  his  whole  human 
experience  is  the  record  of  peaceful  and  joyous 
dominion  over  its  suggestions,  yet  assuredly  no 
life  was  ever  fuller  of  accomplishment.  He 
chided  the  complaining  Martha,  "cumbered  with 
much  serving,"  and  the  disciples  who  had  been 
toiling  all  night  without  result  he  lovingly  admon- 
ished to  cast  their  nets  "on  the  right  side" — on 
the  side  with  God.  It  is  impossible  to  think  of 
Jesus  as  hurrying.  Even  when  he  heard  that 
Lazarus,  whom  he  loved,  was  sick,  he  made  no 
haste  to  go  to  him,  because  he  was  about  the 
Father's  business,  and  knew  that  he  could  trust  to 
that  Father's  own  time  and  guidance.  His  every 
action  exemplified  Isaiah's  saying:  "He  that  be- 
lieveth  shall  not  make  haste." 

A  distinction  must,  of  course,  be  made  between 
a  wrong  manifestation  of  activity,  which  results 
in  a  sense  of  worry  and  false  responsibility,  and 
reaultful,  Mind-directed  action;  for  the  one  is  the 
|k  about  the  other;  one  is  getting  under  a  heap 
of  matter,  the  other  overcomes  (comes  over)  it 
all:  one  absorbs  a  burdened  lense,  the  other  re- 


28  THE    LAW    OF    KINDNESS 

fleets  dominion.  The  right  way  is  open  to  every 
one  who  will  consistently  remember  that  man 
reflects  the  infinite  intelligence  and  power  and 
action  of  the  one  God,  to  turn  from  absorbing 
the  testimony  that  intelligence,  power,  and 
activity  are  in  or  of  matter.  Thought  is  uplifted 
by  even  the  least  realization  that  "man  is  not 
made  to  till  the  soil.  His  birthright  is  dominion, 
not  subjection.  He  is  lord  of  the  belief  in  earth 
and  heaven, — himself  subordinate  alone  to  his 
Maker"  (Science  and  Health,  p.  517).  The  Mas- 
ter's compassionate  invitation  is  calling,  will 
eternally  call  to  the  earth-bound:  "Come  unto 
•  me,  all  ye  that  labor  and  are  heavy  laden,  and 
I  will  give  you  rest.  Take  my  yoke  upon  you,  and 
learn  of  me ;  for  I  am  meek  and  lowly  in  heart :  and 
ye  shall  find  rest  unto  your  souls.  For  my  yoke 
is  easy,  and  my  burden  is  light." 


TWO   ROSES 

A  rosebud  fair  in  a  garden  grew, 

Tiny  and  pale  and  shy. 
The  sun  shone  out  of  a  sky  of  blue, 

And  the  soft  winds  floated  by, 
But  it  wrapped  itself  in  its  petals  cold, 
And  seemed  to  say,  "I  will  not  unfold/' 

A  woman  came  in  the  sunset  light — 

"O  shy  little  rose,"  she  cried, 
"Why  don't  you  open  your  eyes,  and  smile? 

Is  it  laziness,  temper,  or  pride? 
The  spring  is  here,  and  the  world  is  glad, 
Why  do  you  look  so  pale  and  sad?" 

A  day  went  by,  and  the  rose  still  hid 

Its  face  in  its  veil  of  green — 
"You  poor  little  thing!"  she  said  to  hersetf, 

"It  is  very  plain  to  be  seen 

That  you  never  can  grow  to  be  big  and  st  rong, 

Unless  I  help  the  work  along." 
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80  THE  law  of  kindness 

With  trembling  hands  and  in  eager  haste 

She  opened  one  by  one 
The  fragile  leaves.     "It  is  all  very  well 

To  wait  for  the  wind  and  sun, 
But  gentle  methods  are  often  slow — 
My  way  is  a  better  one,  I  know. 

"Don't  think  me  meddlesome — it's  because 

I  love  you  so,  you  see. 
I  cannot  trust  in  the  wind  and  sun — 

It  all  depends  on  me !" 
And  she  forced  each  delicate  leaf  apart 
Till  she  reached  its  glowing,  golden  heart. 

As  the  stars  came  out  she  stole  away 
Through  the  garden's  fragrant  gloom. 

"It  won't  be  long,"  she  gaily  cried, 
"Till  my  rose  will  be  in  bloom. 

And  then  how  happy  it  will  be 

To  think  it  had  a  friend  like  me !" 

But  when  she  chanced  that  way  again, 
Instead  of  her  rose  she  found 

A  poor  stiff  thinsf  whose  withered  leaves 
Were  strewing  the  muddy  ground. 

A  storm  had  beaten,  the  wind  had  blown, 

And  the  calyx  stood  on  its  stem  alone. 


PWO  ROSBS  81 

She  bowed  her  head.     "Will  I  never  learn  !H 
She  whispered,     "Dear  patient  One! 

I  pray  for  wisdom,  another  time, 
To  wait  for  the  wind  and  sun — 

To  trust  that  the  power  which  made  the  rose 

Will  see  that  it  lives  and  thrives  and  grows!" 

Another  rose  in  the  garden  grew, 

Tiny  and  pale  and  cold. 
"It  is  love,"  she  said,  "and  not  self-will, 

That  will  help  my  rose  unfold. 
Have  I  not  courage,  God  above, 
To  do  what  is  best  for  the  thing  I  love?" 

Humbly  she  knelt,  and  with  gentle  hands 

Loosened  the  earth  at  its  feet; 
She  carried  water  to  quench  its  thirst; 

She  whispered,  "O  rosebud  sweet, 
We  know  not  when  God's  time  may  be, 
But  I  can  do  my  part,  you  see." 

Silently,  sweetly,  hour  by  hour, 

In  God's  own  way  it  grew — 
How  it  warmed  at  the  touch  of  the  summer  sun ! 

How  it  laughed  when  the  soft  winds  blew! 
"Help  me,"  she  whispered,  "Love  divine. 
To  knew  it  was  Thine  before  it  was  mine." 


62  THE   LAW   OF    KINDNESS 

Then  the  moment  came  when  she  saw  the  last 
Of  the  shy  pink  leaves  unfold, 

And  the  air  was  filled  with  a  perfume  rare, 
Straight  from  its  heart  of  gold. 

And  it  seemed  to  say,  "O  tried  and  true, 

I  am  glad  I  had  a  friend  like  you !" 


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